The Clamagore Restoration
and Maintenance Association was formed in 2013 to try to save the USS Clamagore
SS-343 from being reefed off the coast of Florida. A group of retired submarine
sailors and other concerned citizens got together and searched for a way to
keep this last of a kind submarine from becoming history. They developed a business
plan to take the submarine from Patriots Point and putting it up on land in
conjunction with the proposed Hunley Museum. The Hunley submarine is currently
housed at the former North Charleston Naval Base. When the restoration and preservation
of the Hunley is completed it will be placed at a museum site at the north end
of the base. It is hoped that the Clamagore can be placed on a land site near
this museum.